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… academies quickly became a shared aspect of western European travel culture. In the eighteenth century, academies in Paris and along the Loire remained popular options, as did a newer waves of academies with strong ties to courtly life, … well as encompassing highly fashionable cosmopolitan sociability, rarefied sites of enlightened conversation. 3 When in Paris in 1780, for example, George Herbert, later 11 th earl of Pembroke, bounced between Versailles, the salon run by the Parisian hostess, Amélie de Boufflers, Duchess de Lauzun, and much wilder libertine sets. 4 In certain locations - …
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